The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-10-20
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town.
Fort Gratiot is the first Michigan
town to use natural gas successfully
eor fuel.
Sandusky, Ohio. proposes to abolish
her lamps and light the city, by cleo
tricity.
John Dunmire of Trade City, Penn,
the other day brought down an eagle
which measured six feet six Inches |
from tip to tip.
A Maine Judge has decided that it is
perfectly legal for the members OF
church choir to whisper to each other
during service.
A lady found $50 gold piece in the
streets of Woodland, Cal, one day re-
Gently, invested it in lot, and in two
weeks realized 81, $50.
In one week in New York thirty
two dry-goods clerks lost their sItua-
.tions because it was ascertalned tiaI
they frequented pool-rooms.
A discovery of bed of Swedish iron
ore near. Chattanooga has caused mnch
excitement. The iron manufacturers
are looking into the matter.
At Jerseyville, H., George Good
because his sweetheart would not al
low him to spend the evening with
her.
A Medford, N. j., mother got wind
of the intended elopement OF her
daughter the other night and circum-
vented her by locking up all her wear
ing apparel.
There is highway crossing over
the New York Central road where l30
people have been killed in the last
fourteen years because the company
was too stingy to employ Watchman.
The banks in Oregon have plenty OF
money to advance on wheat; but the
farmers are borrowing much less than
usual, which is an indication that they
are in better condition than for sew
eral years.
d. M. Hunter of Mount Morris.
Mich, owns a colt which has no eyes,
having been born in that unfortunate
condition. 1t is now over year old
and rather more intelligent than the
ordinary equine.
A piece of rock was thrown 1000
feet by a blast in shaft No. 9, Calumet
& Hecla mine, in Michigan, and i'll
coming down crashed through a
house, landing at the feet OF an old
lady who sat knitting.
The old compass which was used in
surveying Iroquois county as far back
as 1882 is on exhibition in the show
window of Alters drug store at Wat
seka. 1t is the property of Mrs. Rob
ertson of Watseka. Ill.
A Buffalo canary has a miniature
well in his cage, with q bucket, the
chain of which reaches to its perch.
When it wants drink it draws up the
bucket, much to the delight of the
children in the neighborhood.
An old sword has been dug up in
the Rome railroad yard. 1t has been
in the ground so long that rust had
eaten clear through some portions o1
the blade. 1t is thought to have be
longed to the early Spanish, settlers.
A woman of 76 years. who had lons
been known there as q professional
beggar. died in Boston the other day
and among the rags and broken furni
ture of her howell were found bonds
and money to the amount of $1,000.
At st. Augustine. Fla, few day:
since A. M. Lopez, while at work tear
ing down Missions building on st
George street, found an old-fashionet
pistol Embedded in the walls. 1t is o
queer design and undoubtedly of grea
age.
Mr.. III. C. Duval, of the New Yorl
Central, is cited by the New 7 York Su'
as concluding from nine successive
annual trips that it costs less to spent
three months in Europe than at any o
our fashionable mountain or seasid
hotels.
A carat of gold received its nam
from the carat-seed or the seed of tn
Abyssinian cora flower. This was a
one period made useful when gems o
gold were to be weighed, and so cam,
about the peculiar and now genera
use of the word.
Alfalfa is grown in California ant
Texas as cattle feed, and three or fon
crops are harvested per year. 1t ha
always been supposed that alfalfi
would not thrive outside of Californi:
and Texas, but it has been successful
ly grown in Illinois at least.
A citizen of San Bernardino, Cal.
has been discovered who has beel
married twenty years and is the fathe
of eleven children, but has never kisse,
his wife nor any of his children. H
believes kissing is wicked becaus'
Christ was betrayed with kiss.
A coyote in Walla Walla was at
tackled by an immense hawk that hi
him fair on the back of the head. TIL
coyote would duck his head, then max
q snap at the hawk but could not reacl
it, and at the end of twenty minute
the coyote was trailing in the dust.
Experiments show thata large ocea1
steamer, going at nineteen knots al
hour, will move about two miles afte
its engines are stopped and reversed
and no authority gives less than {
mile or mile and a half as the re
quisite space to stop its progress.
Every vehicle in Scotland especially
in the Highlands, is provided with
brake. No pony chaise or village car
is without one, and to go down th'
smallest declivity without using it il
regarded as recklessness on the par
of the driver and cruelty to the horses
Abraham Burbank, of Pittsfeld
Mass, aged 30 years, fell about thirt,
feet from a scaffold on one Of his build
ings, striking on his head and should
ers. He was considerably Jared, bu
the next morning was at work appar
emily none the worse for his big drop
Surveyors going over the line be
tween Washington and Greene coun
ties, Pennsylvania, found one house
so situated that the husband eats hi.
meal in Washington while the wifi,
eats hers in Greene, and they sleel
with their heads in one county anC
their feet in the other.
The aldermen of Newark, N. j., ar,
unhappy. They supplied themselve.
with gorgeous gold badges at the ex
pense of the city treasury, as they sup
posed, but the mayor refused to ap
prove the bill, and corporation coun
sci says the alderman must pay fol
their decorations themselves.
A new and picturesque branch Of
business has been established at Ca
lera, Ala. An enterprising coloreG
gentleman of that place gets bitten by
rattlesnake ION purpose" at so cent
bite. This done. he promptly pro